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Andrabi’s Hyderabad visit under lens
Investigation was on into reports claiming that Kashmir separatist leader Asiya Andrabi had come to the city in December 2015, said Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma on Wednesday. The DGP was speaking to the media at the annual press meet of Telangana police at his office in the State capital.
DGP says IS sympathisers from the State are under police watch
“There are unconfirmed reports that Asiya Andrabi had come to Hyderabad to meet the young trio (who wanted to join IS and was caught at Nagpur). We are probing further on that part and can say something only after we complete the probe,” the DGP said
Hyderabad: Investigation was on into reports claiming that Kashmir separatist leader Asiya Andrabi had come to the city in December 2015, said Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma on Wednesday. The DGP was speaking to the media at the annual press meet of Telangana police at his office in the State capital.
The DGP said they needed concrete evidence to confirm her arrival to the city to meet the three youngsters who were arrested by the Telangana police in Nagpur. They had plans to fly to Srinagar and then to Syria to join fighters of Islamic State of Syria and Iraq.
“There are unconfirmed reports that Asiya Andrabi had come to Hyderabad to meet the young trio. We are probing further on that part and can say something only after we complete the investigation,” the DGP said. Abdul Basith (20), Maaz Hasan Farooq (22) and Syed Omer Farooq Hussaini (22), hailing from Hyderabad were arrested by the Hyderabad police on December 27, for allegedly planning to join ISIS.
The investigators on Tuesday said the trio wanted to meet the Kashmir separatist leader, by using their uncle’s name, former chief of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) late Syed Salahuddin.
Replying to a query, the DGP said the Telangana police had not received any information from the Jammu and Kashmir government in the case. “We are alert and we do know what is happening. We are closely watching such persons and that is why we could catch them.
If any sympathisers are further identified, we will counsel them and try to bring them to the right path, so that they do not indulge in any unsocial or untoward activities. If anybody crosses the line, we will not spare them,” the DGP said.
Meanwhile, the Special Investigation Team, which is probing the case, has moved to a local court here seeking the custody of the trio to extract more on the subject.
PTI adds: The police in Jammu and Kashmir are investigating claims by the three arrested youths from Hyderabad that they were planning to meet Asiya Andrabi to join jihadi terror groups even as she dismissed as ‘fabricated’ allegations that she had any links with Islamic State. “We are in touch with the Telangana police. All the agencies are investigating.
It is a serious case, so we are on the job," Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh told reporters in Jammu. Singh was asked about claims by the three youths who were arrested on December 27 following their detention by the police last week from Nagpur airport before they were to leave for Srinagar to meet Andrabi, chief of radical outfit Dukhtaran-e- Millat.
Andrabi on Wednesday dismissed allegations that she had any connection with Islamic State as a ‘concocted story’. “This is a concocted story and has nothing to do with me,” Andrabi told PTI in Srinagar. She said there was no connection between the separatists of Kashmir and the international terror group Islamic State.
